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Tammy Wise2024-06-27 14:37:322024-06-27 17:13:33The Gratitude that Lives Beneath Pain
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Tammy Wise2024-05-21 21:34:522024-05-21 21:34:52Whose Life is Mine?
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Tammy Wise2024-04-29 15:16:232024-04-29 15:36:08My Pigeon Babies have Flown the CoupWelcome to the BodyLogos blog. Here’s where you’ll get your dose of alignment and balance with grace. (Sign up here to join 1,000 other blog subscribers.)
Redefining Strength
I want to change our perception of strength. Strength is the ability to meet resistance and influence an outcome without compromising ourselves. And we already have it.
Strength is not an attribute; it’s a state of being. Gladiators, bodybuilders, and football players demonstrate strength through brute force, sheer willpower, muscle mass, and relentless pursuit. But we’re also quick to identify dancers and martial artists as strong. Their medium taps into a sense of vulnerability, balance, alignment, controlled power, and grace—but no one can deny their strength. Strength may look different on each of us, but it is an inherent part of who we are.
You are not weak by nature; you are stronger than you think. Your strength is not something you need to kill yourself to gain—it is already within you, waiting to be excavated. The key is to stop chasing something you already have and tap into it, so you can manifest that strength in your everyday life.
Because we don’t think we’re strong, we approach resistance with the idea that we’re not enough. We throw everything we have at it and push past our physical, mental, and emotional limitations. We see strength as domination, but it’s not.
When you learn to listen to your body’s divine wisdom, you cultivate a sense of where your body is developing tension instead of standing in its strength. You end the vicious cycle of unrealistic expectations, injury, and self-criticism and learn how to consciously embrace responsible growth. You stop compartmentalizing your strength into emotional, physical, and mental pieces and operate from the strength of your being at all times.
You learn how to align yourself with gravity—instead of working against it—so you can channel your strength to meet life’s resistance. As you meet resistance with equal parts power and alignment, you transform tension into strength
As in the sword dance above, the power lies in bringing just the right amount of force—not too little and not too much. By meeting the sword’s weight, I meet gravity. I am tapped into a larger source of energy, free of tension, and discover a strength that is wholly and uniquely mine.
About Tammy Wise
The Fitness of Gratitude
by Tammy WiseTam & Tone heading to Mini-Moon!
Gratitude asks us to stretch beyond what feels comfort.
As I sit writing Thank You notes, surrounded by beautiful gifts and their wrappings, I’m transported back to the magnified joy of my wedding days. From the shower to city hall, the spiritual ceremony and after-party, there were 4-days of being recognized for trusting love.
So many heartfelt toasts, stirred memories shared, and unexpected guests celebrated us. Anthony and I felt our chests—our heart centers—stretched wide open! So open, that our hearts ached. Similar to a smile, making your cheeks ache!
We mini-mooned at a spa, basking in the feeling of so much shared affection, hope for the future, and belief that love is the centerpiece to a happy, whole, healthy life. Naming our feelings, I felt chosen and Anthony felt lucky. Feelings we continue to nurture as we return to life’s mundane routines.
I could only write a few Thank You notes at a time. Ten was a lot! I would get tired! But why was I getting tired of feeling happy, whole, and healthy?
I realized that being happy, whole, and healthy, without doubts, fears, or anger was so expansive that it was actually hard to hold onto. Like stretching a muscle, you gradually expand the soft tissues to permit, own, and become flexible. It doesn’t happen in a day!
Choosing to trust love asks for daily practice. To stretch into being happy, whole, and healthy requires due diligence and consideration. Consciousness is a muscle we choose to exercise. And, what we focus on, in our consciousness, is our choice… an important choice.
This parallel between mind and body—consciousness and muscular flexibility—illustrates how important practice is. To practice alignment, flexibility, strength, coordination and love, in mind and body, to self and others, for our lives and the world, is to permit, own, and become it.
For love to be a centerpiece in the world, to override impatience, mistrust, and jealousy, we all need to exercise it daily. Being grateful—writing Thank You notes—was one way to practice aligned, flexible, strong, coordinated love, consciously.
I thank you all again, for the lesson on how-to expand my capacity to love.
Through your trust in us, I stretched from the inside out. You’ve made me understand that love requires fitness. Fitness in a whole new light. A light that chooses patience, trust, and joy, on purpose and with purpose.
This light is the lubricant for love, that builds trust in our own capacity to expand into being love.